The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-06-16

away these handtW0fko Of nature, nugo
beds Of rock, acres Of stone, mountains
Of granite, ON which goats disport,
whefeon are built the shanties Of the
laborer, and the one-storied stables Of
the "Orange-county milkmen." The
march Of civilization, little by little,
pushes away the shanties, drives away
the goats, upheaves the rocks and plants
thereon, these overgrowths of most
peculiar, though most prosperous
people. Our rich men are mot educated
men.
Their faculties ere sharpened in the
line Of money-getting; their cardinal
virtue seems to Be money-keeping. The
elder generations, whose wit and tact and
brute force made and heaped and accu-
mulated the fortune, finds its pleasure to
an amazing extent In the possession of
expensive horses. I can name q dozen
triple, quintuple millionaires who, after
q few hours devoted to business down
town, resort Immediately to their stables,
where, with jockeys and stable boys and
visitors, they discuss the points Of their
horses and bet upon their speed.
Every afternoon the boulevard leading
from the park toward Manhattanville is
literally crowded with the owners of
fast-fying horses, eager to witness the
trials Of speed furnished for their delecta-
tion by the Vsnderbilts, the Works, the
Deweys and other sports for which New
York of to. day is noted. The boulevard
ID lined with road-houses, where Q cigar
and bottle are the average entertain
ment furnished to the man, while his
horse takes his sponge at the post. For.
tunes are won and lost every pleasant
afternoon by these men of money, and
their example, pernicious and enervat.
ing, has aiken q firm grip upon the second
generation, which adds to the follies oi
the elder the vices more peculiar to
people of their age. Utterly selfish, alb.
solutely ignoring the convenience and
comfort OF others, these drivers prs,
their horses to their utmost speed and
would no more think Of holding up OF
turning aside to avoid collision or G.
calamity to others than of eating the
dust Of tho road for their dinner. In
their mind check is ample compensa
tion to any victim, however old OF oi
whichever sex. And this spirit of brutal
selfshness which they evince every
afternoon in this particular spot is fair
type and index of their feeling In all
other relations Of life toward their fel
low.men. Like begets like, and If these
men continue, as they certainly will.
their course Of personal qualification al
the expense Of their fellow citizens, liter
ally reckless Of anybody's veal but theil
own, the day Of reckoning as surely
will come.
am no alarmist.
don't care the turn Of my hand how
many millions Mr. Vanderbilt has, or Mr..
Gould, or Mr.. Anybodyelse, but common
sense teaches me that the excesses which,
led to the uprisings in France, and tho
mushroom growth of the rich men of
California, which resulted in the exodus
of nineteen-twentieths of the rich men
from that State, are but the presage and
precursor of some upheavsl, Of some
convulsion, on this beautiful Man.
haitian island, which is cursed to-day by
the excessive prosperity of the one class
and by the terrible destitution of the
other. Two and two make four all the
world round, and New York city will not
prove an exception.
Meantime let US enjoy the glories of the
weather, which belongs as truly to the
poor as to the rich, and can, thank
Heaven, never be taken away.
HOwARD